Ecclesiastes 9:4
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4 But whoever is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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Isaiah 38:18
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18 For Sheol cannot thank you;
death cannot praise you;
those who go down to the Pit cannot hope
for your faithfulness.(A)
Job 14:7-12
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7 “For there is hope for a tree,
if it is cut down, that it will sprout again
and that its shoots will not cease.
8 Though its root grows old in the earth
and its stump dies in the ground,
9 yet at the scent of water it will bud
and put forth branches like a young plant.(A)
10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(B)
11 As waters fail from a lake
and a river wastes away and dries up,(C)
12 so mortals lie down and do not rise again;
until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
or be roused out of their sleep.(D)
Luke 16:26-29
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26 Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’ 27 He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’(A)
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Lamentations 3:21-22
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21 But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
Footnotes
- 3.22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off
Job 27:8
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8 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off,
when God takes away their lives?(A)
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